Railway Blundering. To the Editor of the Evening Penny Post
Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1878 · page 4
SIR,âIs it not strange that public indignation is not more fully aroused by the gross mismanagement of the railway authorities ? For some weeks past the goods which should have arrived in…
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The Burrangong Argus · Saturday 4 May 1878 · page 4
THE ‘ down ’ western mail train which left Sydney at 6.10 p.m. on Monday did not reach Orange till an hour and a-half behind-time on Tuesday morning. It was detained…
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Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 6
SIR,âAt considerable expense we have completed the erection of a weighbridge to suit the growing requirements of this city; and with the view of giving the public the promptest information, have…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 11 May 1878 · page 6
The Melbourne Argus says that it is reported that the minister for railways proposes to have a section of the Geelong and…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 15 May 1878 · page 2
THE minister for works, accompanied by the commissioner for railways, and the traffic manager, left Sydney by special train on Friday morning, on a visit of inspection to the Southern railway. Yass…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 17 May 1878 · page 4
WAGGA, WAGGA, Saturday night.--The Minister for Works, accompanied by the Commissioner for Railways, left Sydney by special train on Friday morning on a visit of…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 22 May 1878 · page 4
As the extension of the southern railway proceeds, the more the great pastoral districts are opened up, and the more the prospective revenue depends upon the…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 25 May 1878 · page 4
AN excursion under the management of the Orange Benefit Society took place yesterday (Queen's Birthday). Arrangements had been made so that the members of the Wesleyan Band of Hope were to…
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The Yass Courier · Tuesday 28 May 1878 · page 4
WHEN they reached the depot, Mr. Man and his wife gazed with unspeakable dissapointment at the receding train, which was just pulling away from the bridge switch at the rate of…
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The Burrowa News · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 2
Wool and Sheepskins : No sales this week, and we withhold remarks till after next Wednesday. Tallows this market is not fully supplied, and high prices are ruling…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 6
For a number of years past the inhabitants of Echuca have longed for a bridge over the Murray as substantial as that which connects Wodonga…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 12 June 1878 · page 2
On Saturday night the mail train for Bethungra left the Goulburn station at 11.57, being two minutes late. On approaching the gates in front of Lansdowne Terrace in…
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The Burrangong Argus · Wednesday 3 July 1878 · page 2
IT will be within the recollection of our readers that the jury at the inquest upon the late Dr. Temple attached the following rider to their verdict—‘That the Government be requested to…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 10 July 1878 · page 4
Wagga Wagga, Saturday.—The Hon. John Sutherland (minister for works) and the Hon. Joseph Leary (minister for justice and education), accompanied by…
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The Yass Courier · Friday 12 July 1878 · page 3
AT midnight on Friday last a special train started from the terminus in Sydney for Junee, conveying some seventy gentlemen who desired not only to witness the further opening up…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 4
THE following regulations in regard to the issue at reduced rates of tickets to families, tourists, and school-children are new:— Return excursion tickets at a reduced rate of ten per cent. At…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Saturday 13 July 1878 · page 2
THE minister for works was accompanied by a number of gentlemen on his trip from Sydney to open the line to Junee. Amongst others, were Mr. P. A. Jennings, Mr…
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The Burrowa News · Saturday 20 July 1878 · page 4
It was the summer of 1853, and I was a member of a road-making party working in the nieghborhood of one of the principal goldfields, such parties being at…
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Goulburn and Queanbeyan Evening Penny Post, and Southern Counties General Advertiser · Tuesday 23 July 1878 · page 3
QUEANBEYAN, with all its natural advantages, and they are numerous, is yet very far indeed behind the present age in many of its important advantages, both of a commercial…
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The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1878 · page 2
THE new cattle and sheep yards at the Goulburn railway-station are now completed, and on inspection by persons practically acquainted with the trucking of stock, will be found to be all that can be desired…
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